[Alf Stewart]

So it's perfectly fine for Oliver to spout out conspiracy theories admittedly on a niche opinion channel while having his repeats of Coast being aired on BBC2 as filler, yet it's not for Gary Lineker to have an opinion on social media about UK government policy which he's never mentioned on-air?

For the love of God. I never said that.

For the record:

- I don't think Gary Lineker was wrong to tweet what he did. It's his opinion, after all. I never said he shouldn't be able to have an opinion.
- I think the way the BBC have handled Lineker's suspension has been pretty shambolic.
- I think the inconsistent nature of the ways the expectations are laid out to presenters and enforced is woeful and needs urgently looking at.
- I don't see a problem with them airing Coast as filler. Oliver may now have a weekly platform on a right-wing news channel but this doesn't, in my mind, stop them from broadcasting an entirely apolitical look at the UK coastline filmed a decade earlier.
- I do, just for the record, see more of an issue with paedophiles - thanks to Steve in Pudsey for inviting me to clear that up...

Hope I haven't missed anything and that this is now clear...?

I must say, it's pretty disappointing to have to spell this out.

If everyone has the same view on every issue, this place becomes nothing more than an echo chamber with everyone nodding along. I'm just trying to put forward a different side where I can see one, and take some of the hysteria out of things.

In fairness some of your posts have given your high horse vertigo even it didn't know what your opinion on the situation was or what point you were trying to make. So in all seriousness thank you for spelling it out clearly.

I'm sure everyone welcomes a different take and different opinions but there's really no need to be so aggressive.